Anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorism financing reporting for obliged entities under EU and national AML frameworks. This section covers STR/SAR filing workflows (e.g. via GoAML), standardised AML/CFT data collection templates, and the EU-wide changes coming with the AML Regulation (AMLR), AML Directive (AMLD6), and the new Anti-Money-Laundering Authority (AMLA). Articles explain who reports, what data is collected, deadlines, and practical implementation issues – particularly for banks, payment institutions, fund administrators, VASPs, and other regulated firms. Sanctions screening and FATF analysis of high-risk areas (stablecoins, unhosted wallets) are covered in adjacent sections. Start with the AML reporting practical guide or the AMLR overview for the EU framework.
A Canadian bank with a branch in Singapore falls within section 9.7; a life insurance company’s foreign subsidiary is covered only if it carries out similar activities and is wholly owned or consolidated with the company; and a securities dealer’s affiliated London entity can trigger section 9.8 if the statutory affiliation test is met. Canada’s…
On 26 June 2026 the Financial Action Task Force published a report on terrorist financing through social media, instant messaging applications and streaming platforms, and it lands with an uncomfortable number attached. Fewer than 30% of jurisdictions contributing to the FATF report said that this risk was covered in their national risk assessments. That national-level…
On 1 July 2026 the United Kingdom took over the two-year Presidency of the Financial Action Task Force and used its first day to launch the FATF 2026-2028 Roadmap on Combatting Fraud. The launch event, opened by the incoming FATF President Giles Thomson and supported by Executive Secretary Violaine Clerc, set fraud as one of…
On 8 July 2026 the Financial Action Task Force published a global stocktake of public-private partnerships for fighting illicit finance, and the message to reporting teams is blunt: the data that would expose a laundering network usually sits in fragments across separate banks, payment firms and law enforcement files, and criminals move faster than any…
On 16 July 2026 the Financial Action Task Force published its seventh targeted update on how countries are implementing the FATF standards for virtual assets and virtual asset service providers. The headline finding is that implementation remains uneven. Of the 109 jurisdictions answering the Travel Rule legislation question, 91, or 83 percent, reported legislation in…
On 17 July 2026 the Council of the European Union adopted Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1779, which amends Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 and adds six new designations to the EU list of persons and entities subject to an asset freeze over the situation in Ukraine. The measure entered into force on the…
On 15 July 2026 the Wolfsberg Group published its Guidance on the Provision of Banking Services to non-bank Payment Service Providers, and it lands on a problem most financial crime teams already know by feel: the bank holds the account, but it is several parties removed from the person actually sending the money. The new…
On 13 July 2026 the Council of the European Union added new names to two of its Russia restrictive-measures regimes. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1708 amended the human-rights measures set out in Regulation (EU) 2024/1485, and Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1710 amended the destabilising-activities measures in Regulation (EU) 2024/2642. Both were published in the Official…
A cross-border payment is held due to incomplete beneficiary information. The originator name is present, the amount is present, but the beneficiary field is a single block of free text that the receiving institution’s screening engine cannot parse into a name, a country and a town. The transfer is held, a customer complains, and an…
Finansinspektionen has confirmed that the annual AML reporting to FI will be comprehensively updated from 1 January 2027. The new questions replace the current question set, cover obliged entities’ inherent risks and control environments, and align with risk indicators developed with the EBA and AMLA for the EU common risk classification methodology. The reporting period…